26 AUG 2024 by ideonexus
Marketplace of Ideas in COVID Responses
One way of gauging the current diversity of cultures is to consider the range of responses countries made to the COVID-19 pandemic.120 There was, of course, some diversity, from the ultrastrict lockdowns in China to the more moderate response in Sweden. But the range of responses was far more limited than it could have been. For example, both the Moderna and the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines were designed by mid-January 2020 over the course of a few days.121 Not a single country allowed human chal...Folksonomies: marketplace of ideas
Folksonomies: marketplace of ideas
09 JUN 2011 by ideonexus
Benjamin Franklin on Vaccinations
In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen.Franklin regrets not getting his son the small-pox vaccination, which resulted in his death.